Alex Segura
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.75 | 482 Users | 101 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Silent City |
| ISBN: | 0983978360 (ISBN13: 9780983978367) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Pete Fernandez Mystery #1 |
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An Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.Pete Fernandez is a mess. He's on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he's back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a co-worker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld - and, shockingly, his father's past. Making it up as he goes and stumbling as often as he succeeds, Pete's surreptitious quest becomes the wake-up call he's never wanted but has always needed - but one with deadly consequences. Welcome to Silent City, a story of redemption, broken friendships, lost loves and one man's efforts to make peace with a long-buried past to save the lives of the few friends he has left.
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| Title | : | Silent City (Pete Fernandez Mystery #1) |
| Author | : | Alex Segura |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2016 by Polis Books (first published October 22nd 2013) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 482 Users | 101 ReviewsArticle Regarding Books Silent City (Pete Fernandez Mystery #1)
I don't usually read crime/mystery thrillers but I heard some good buzz about this book, and wanted to check it out. This book is proof that a good story will draw you in, regardless of the genre. I found myself hooked from the get go, and the plot kept me guessing as the stakes grew higher and higher, and the consequences became more and more intense.I really liked the main character, Pete, because he felt like a real person, flaws and all. I found myself rooting for him even as I shook my headSilent City is the first novel featuring Pete Fernandez. A fast paced mystery with compelling characters, set in steamy Miami, it hooks you in from the first chapters.
I was hopeful about this one when the publicist contacted me via my blog to offer me a copy. Chris F. Holm and Adam Christopher blurbed it, and I've certainly enjoyed their books. Plus there was a reference to similarities between the main character and Matt Fraction's Clint Barton, which... hmm, I don't really see.Anyway, the problem with this is for me, it felt like a pretty standard detective story in style, tone, plot, characters... There's nothing surprising about an alcoholic PI, though
Newspaper editor Pete Fernandez is a wreck. After his fathers death, he drowned his feelings in alcohol until his fiancé eventually left him.A permanent hangover is the norm for him, followed by a daily routine of arriving to the office at least an hour late. A man with such promise, turned out to be a drunken failure. But then a colleague enlists his help to find his missing daughter. This puts him on a path of purpose. But the path is also dangerous as he delves into the corruption on the
Synopsis/blurb...."The new George Pelecanos is here." Son of SpadePete Fernandez is a mess. He's on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he's back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a co-worker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses and memories bursting from the
Pete Fernandez, sometime sports copy editor for the Miami Times, and full-time drunk, is asked by an acquaintance to look into the disappearance of his daughter. Chaz Bentley used to be a big-time columnist, but has fallen on hard times; his daughter, Kathy, managed to ride his coattails into a job as an investigative reporter for the Times. Now, Kathy has gone missing, just as it appears she may have cracked the biggest case of her career, exposing the name of The Silent Death, a hit-man who
This needs to be a tv show!
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